Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence
EconTalk
Did the Man Eat the Hamburger?
You riff on it quite a bit in a very effective way to talk about language, how subtle languages and bent out of shape doesn't mean that you're not going to have to be able to do it. I kind of stole that idea from Roger Shank, an old time, AI natural language person who had these little stories like that and asked those kinds of questions. And also, John Searle, a philosopher who used that example of eating a hamburger to talk about whether machines could really understand anything.
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